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Calaveras Big Trees State Park, California 4, Arnold, CA, USA

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Pioneers find shelter in Big Tree State Park, California (1886)

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Pioneers find shelter in Big Tree State Park, California (1886)

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"Thinking that my New Albany friends would like to know what is going on here, I take the liberty of addressing you a few lines. We arrived here on Thursday, the 14th instant, from St. Louis, on the steamer Dove, making the trip in the short space of eleven days from New Albany to this place. Thus far, with the exception of a little trouble with our cattle, our trip has been a pleasant one. The boys enjoyed themselves finely, and have jogged along with cheerful hearts and bright hopes of the future. The tide of emigration from the States to California by way of St. Joseph, is pouring in from every direction. The whole country seems to be in commotion, and all are thinking and talking El Dorado, and a great many have left on their way there. Twice as many have arrived this Spring at last. The number now here I should estimate at 5,000. The daily arrivals of steamers are fast increasing the number. Several companies have left and are now on their journey, but they take with them sufficient grain to feed their stock till they can obtain grass on the plains. We have sufficient feed to last about three weeks, and we hope that by the time that is gone the grass will be sufficiently high for our stock to graze. Feed in the city of St. Joseph is very high; corn is selling at California. A trip across the plains, in the spring of 1850, being a daily record of incidents of the trip ... and containing valuable information to emigrants ...

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Chickasaw Bluff Number Four, Memphis, TN, USA

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Letter from Merriweather Lewis to President James Madison (1809)

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Letter from Merriweather Lewis to President James Madison (1809)

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Lewis, Meriwether, "Letter from Meriwether Lewis, Chickasaw Bluffs, to James Madison Esqr, September 16, 1809," Digital Public Library of America, http://dp.la/item/b5da6546ea5351e2800eb3984f32ddab.

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A letter from Meriwether Lewis to President James Madison about Lewis's journey to deliver papers to Washington, 1809.

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Citation Information Lewis, Meriwether, "Letter from Meriwether Lewis, Chickasaw Bluffs, to James Madison Esqr, September 16, 1809," Digital Public Library of America, http://dp.la/item/b5da6546ea5351e2800eb3984f32ddab. Note: These citations are programmatically generated and may be incomplete.

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Chief John Ross writes about white settlement in the Cherokee Nation (1836)

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Chief John Ross writes about white settlement in the Cherokee Nation (1836)

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In a letter called "Our Hearts are Sickened" Chief John Ross of the Cherokee Indian tribe writes

“…We are stripped of every attribute of freedom and eligibility for legal self-defence. Our property may be plundered before our eyes; violence may be committed on our persons; even our lives may be taken away, and there is none to regard our complaints. …We have neither land nor home, nor resting place that can be called our own…”

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Omaha Fire Station #65, South 142nd Street, Omaha, NE, USA

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Drawing shows two covered wagons being ferried across the Platte River in central Wyoming. A man stands on the far bank of the river, with a hook in one hand. In the distance, people have set up camp in three covered wagons and a tent. This camp may be near present-day Casper, Wyoming, where the Jenks would have joined the Oregon Trail. Jenks and his party arrived at camp 60 on Wednesday, June 8, 1859. He noted in his diary that they camped in a cottonwood grove.